Norwalk police probe reports of shots fired near bus station

Published 8:00 pm, Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Hour Photo/John Nash - Two Norwalk police officers survey the scene of a shooting outside McMahon Ford on Main Street in Norwalk on Wednesday as a pedestrian passes by.

Hour Photo/John Nash - Two Norwalk police officers survey the scene of a shooting outside McMahon Ford on Main Street in Norwalk on Wednesday as a pedestrian passes by.

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Hour Photo/JOHN NASH - Norwalk police have a talk with somebody they detained near the temporary Norwalk Bus Station after a shooting around the corner.

Hour Photo/JOHN NASH - Norwalk police have a talk with somebody they detained near the temporary Norwalk Bus Station after a shooting around the corner.

Norwalk police probe reports of shots fired near bus station

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NORWALK

By CHASE WRIGHT

Hour Staff Writer

Norwalk police are investigating an apparent shots-fired incident that occurred Wednesday night on Main Street near the bus station and also reports of a person shot in a home on Suncrest Road.

Nearly a dozen police cruisers responded to the corner of Burnell Boulevard and Main Street shortly before 6 p.m. on a report of shots fired.

Police blocked traffic along the Burnell Boulevard bridge, where Norwalk Transit District Wheels operates its bus station hub, to investigate the incident and canvas the scene for shell casings.

Officers interviewed multiple witnesses and had one man detained on the bridge.

Police at the scene said they had no suspects and would continue to investigate the incident.

Scanner activity at about 7:30 p.m. indicated that police also received multiple calls from an anonymous caller on Suncrest Road of a person suffering from a gunshot wound.

The person had apparently been involved in a separate shooting and was taken to Norwalk Hospital, according to police correspondence over the scanner.

No further information on the unidentified victim's condition was available as of press time.

Witnesses told The Hour at the scene of the Main Street shots fired that they heard multiple gunshots coming from the corner of Main and Burnell Boulevard.

One woman, who was getting her daughter's dress tailored across the street at Cousin's Clothing of Norwalk, said she heard three or four loud bangs ring out in front of McMahon Ford.

She then saw three men, who appeared to be in their teens, run up the bridge. A fourth man, she said, ran up Main Street toward Hoyt Street, then circled around and joined the others at the top of the bridge.

Another woman said she was smoking a cigarette outside of B.J. Ryan's restaurant when she witnessed a young, black male, possibly in his early 20s, point a gun toward the bushes at Irving Freese Park and fire two shots.

The shooter then fled up Main Street toward B.J. Ryan's, while three other men, who appeared to be involved, ran up the bridge in the opposite direction, she said.

The woman said she ran back inside the restaurant for safety and lost sight of the shooter.